Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME'S choice to paint the President on his own seventh appearance on TIME'S cover, was Italy's famous portrait painter, Pietro Annigoni, 51, who made headlines in years past with his paintings of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Margaret. A vivacious and expansive fellow who lives in a kind of chaotic simplicity in Florence, surrounded like a Renaissance master with admiring students who call him Maestro, mix his paints, and fill in the backgrounds of his frescoes, Annigoni at first did not understand the need of secrecy, and soon the Italian press and radio...
...Artist Ade Bethune in Sacred Signs, a bulletin interested in liturgical arts, modern painters seeking to portray Christ's first followers should not consider themselves free to draw as they see fit. Instead, the contemporary painter should respect "the collective memory of the Church" by following the traditional portrait guidelines that were laid down by the early Christian painters. These models are still followed by the icon makers of the Eastern churches-and, in the case of Christ, by most Western painters...
...desert. The high-noon blaze of Motley's desert scenes evokes a sandy inferno stretching to infinity, a landscape without perspective in which a man might take himself for a god. By contrast, the R.A.F. barracks are squatty, cramped, mind-dwarfing. But at play's end, this portrait of a hero turns out to have been persistently tantalizing as drama, never entirely convincing as logic, radically oversimplified as psychology...
Actor Beatty plays the pretty boy for laughs as well as looks-seems as though Shirley MacLaine's little brother may be able to act after all. And Actress Leigh brings grace and dignity to a role that, as written, comes depressingly close to a portrait of the lecher as a middle-aged woman...
...SUPER-AMERICANS, by John Bainbridge. Another excellent piece of reporting, this one a maliciously objective portrait of Texas by an observer sly enough to realize that this improbable area is its own satire...